08/31/2026
Travel Day Zero ✈️🏨
Sometimes the best way to start a trip is to leave home a day before you actually leave. 😅
Living quite a ways from the airport means that for certain trips, especially when I have an early flight, I like to take one whole layer of stress out of travel day and stay near the airport the night before.
And this Hilton Garden Inn has become my favorite place to do it. ❤️
I’ve stayed here before, so coming back was an easy decision. My room was actually ready about two hours before official check-in today, I used my digital key and headed straight upstairs, and I’ve been happily settled into my sixth-floor room ever since.
The room is spacious, there’s a great desk for anyone who travels with work in tow 🙋🏼♀️💻, and I can sit here and watch planes coming into Sky Harbor without actually hearing them. That’s a pretty impressive combination for an airport-area hotel. ✈️
The service has been wonderful too. I asked whether I could swap out some of the sugary drinks in my fridge for sugar-free options, and within minutes housekeeping arrived with Coke Zero and FIVE bottles of water. They apparently understood the assignment. 😂
There’s also an outdoor pool and hot tub, fitness center, business center, on-site restaurant and a little Shop downstairs with snacks, drinks and other necessities. Some of these amenity photos are from my previous stay, when I apparently did a very thorough DebBzAdventures inspection before DebBzAdventures even knew it needed them. 😅
The hotel is undergoing some work right now, but so far it hasn’t interfered with my stay at all. Everything has been comfortable, the staff has been genuinely helpful, and there’s a reason I keep coming back.
For me, Travel Day Zero isn’t really an extra vacation day. It’s a way to start the actual adventure rested instead of rushed.
Tonight I can work a little, relax a little, watch some airplanes and wake up tomorrow already only minutes from the airport.
And tomorrow?
Vancouver. 🇨🇦✈️
Then it’s time to GO AND SEA. 🛳️🌎❤️
